Ambient music is a genre of music that emphasizes tone and atmosphere over traditional musical structure or rhythm . It is often "peaceful" sounding and lacks composition , beat, and/or structured melody . It uses textural layers of sound that can reward both passive and active listening and encourage a sense of calm or contemplation. The genre is said to evoke an "atmospheric", "visual", or "unobtrusive" quality. Nature soundscapes may be included, and the sounds of acoustic instruments such as the piano , strings and flute may be emulated through a synthesizer .
78-475: Peroff is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Justin Peroff (born 1977), Canadian musician Nicholas Peroff (born 1944), American political scientist and academic See also [ edit ] Perloff Persoff [REDACTED] Surname list This page lists people with the surname Peroff . If an internal link intending to refer to
156-570: A "piece of ambient-pop" by the music journalist David Buckley in David Bowie: The Music and The Changes , as it prominently incorporates a motorik drum rhythm, electronically processed guitars and a simplistic melody. Dream pop band Slowdive 's 1995 album Pygmalion was a major departure from the band's usual sound, heavily incorporating elements of ambient electronica and psychedelia with hypnotic, repetitive rhythms, influencing many ambient pop bands and subsequently being regarded as
234-591: A certain degree of acclaim throughout the years, especially in the Internet age . Due to its relatively open style, ambient music often takes influences from many other genres, ranging from classical , avant-garde music , experimental music , folk , jazz , and world music , amongst others. As an early 20th-century French composer, Erik Satie used such Dadaist -inspired explorations to create an early form of ambient/background music that he labeled " furniture music " ( Musique d'ameublement ). This he described as being
312-411: A composition. Shaeffer's techniques of using tape loops and splicing are considered to be the precursor to modern day sampling . In 1952, John Cage released his famous three- movement composition 4'33 which is a performance of complete silence for four minutes and thirty-three seconds. The piece is intended to capture the ambient sounds of the venue/location of the performance and have that be
390-511: A computer-analog hybrid system called GROOVE. In 1977, her composition, Music of the Spheres was included on Voyager 1 and 2's Golden Record . In April 1975, Suzanne Ciani gave two performances on her Buchla synthesizer – one at the WBAI Free music store and one at Phil Niblock's loft. These performances were released on an archival album in 2016 entitled Buchla Concerts 1975 . According to
468-444: A distinct style of ambient electronic music that would later be developed into ambient house music. The English producer Brian Eno is credited with coining the term "ambient music" in the mid-1970s. He said other artists had been creating similar music, but that "I just gave it a name. Which is exactly what it needed ... By naming something you create a difference. You say that this is now real. Names are very important." He used
546-683: A distinctive sound tool". By the late 2000s to present, ambient music also gained widespread recognition on YouTube , with uploaded pieces, usually ranging from one to eight hours long, getting over millions of hits. Such videos are usually titled, or are generally known as, "relaxing music", and may be influenced by other music genres . Ambient videos assist online listeners with yoga , study , sleep (see music and sleep ), massage , meditation and gaining optimism , inspiration, and creating peaceful atmosphere in their rooms or other environments. Many uploaded ambient videos tend to be influenced by biomusic where they feature sounds of nature , though
624-469: A documentary directed by him and written by Don McKellar , Titled This Movie Is Broken , it includes concert footage and a fictional romance. Although McDonald announced at the concert that film submitted by fans would be used in the movie, the final cut of the movie included only one submission, a front-row recording of "Major Label Debut". Broken Social Scene released their fourth full-length album on May 4, 2010. Entitled Forgiveness Rock Record , it
702-482: A full-time replacement was found in 2005 with Lisa Lobsinger . From time to time (mostly at hometown shows in Toronto) one of the women may without prior announcement resume their role on their trademark songs. Collett took time off to promote his solo release Idols of Exile , and to attend to his family, prior to the 2005 fall tour. During the 2007 tour, Bill Priddle broke his collar bone, just before October 16 gig at
780-580: A landmark album in the genre; Pitchfork critic Nitsuh Abebe described the album's songs as "ambient pop dreams that have more in common with post-rock [bands] like Disco Inferno than shoegazers like Ride ". The genre continued to stylistically progress in the 2000s with bands including Sweet Trip , Múm , Broadcast , Dntel and his project the Postal Service . Brian Eno's original vision of ambient music as unobtrusive musical wallpaper, later fused with warm house rhythms and given playful qualities by
858-477: A one-hour closing performance on the main stage, following The Strokes and The Raconteurs . Through the performance the band was joined by Feist, Amy Millan of Stars, k-os, and Emily Haines of Metric. This was the last show featuring the entire 15 member line-up of the band until 2009. After a US tour in November, the band went on hiatus while members worked on their other projects. In late 2006, several members of
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#1732884315341936-480: A part in popularising and diversifying ambient music where it was used as a calming respite from the intensity of the hardcore and techno popular at that time. Other global ambient artists from the 1990s include American composers Stars of the Lid (who released 5 albums during this decade), and Japanese artist Susumu Yokota whose album Sakura (1999) featured what Pitchfork magazine called "dreamy, processed guitar as
1014-439: A sense of "continuum of spatial imagery and emotion", beneficial introspection, deep listening and sensations of floating, cruising or flying. Space music is used by individuals for both background enhancement and foreground listening, often with headphones, to stimulate relaxation, contemplation, inspiration and generally peaceful expansive moods and soundscapes . Space music is also a component of many film soundtracks and
1092-446: A short documentary episode of IFC 's The Rawside Of... that focused on the making of Brendan Canning's solo album Something for All of Us . In June 2007, BSS founder Kevin Drew began recording an album which featured many members of Broken Social Scene. The album was produced by Ohad Benchetrit and Charles Spearin and was titled Broken Social Scene presents .. Spirit If... . The album
1170-483: A space to think. Ambient Music must be able to accommodate many levels of listening attention without enforcing one in particular; it must be as ignorable as it is interesting. Eno, who describes himself as a "non-musician", termed his experiments "treatments" rather than traditional performances. In the late 70s, new-age musician Laraaji began busking in New York parks and sidewalks, including Washington Square Park. It
1248-538: A specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person's given name (s) to the link. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Peroff&oldid=1042621554 " Category : Surnames Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description is different from Wikidata All set index articles Monitored short pages Justin Peroff Broken Social Scene
1326-455: A subgenre of vaporwave , features various ambient influences, with artists such as Cat System Corp. and Groceries exploring ambient sounds typical of malls and grocery stores. Ambient dub is a fusion of ambient music with dub . The term was first coined by Birmingham 's now defunct label "Beyond Records" in early 1990s. The label released series of albums Ambient Dub Volume 1 to 4 that inspired many artists, including Bill Laswell , who used
1404-433: Is a Canadian indie rock band and musical collective including as few as six and as many as nineteen members, formed by Kevin Drew (vocals, guitar) and Brendan Canning (vocals, bass) in 1999. Alongside Drew and Canning, the other core members of the band are Justin Peroff (drums), Andrew Whiteman (guitar) and Charles Spearin (guitar). Most of its members play in various other groups and solo projects, mainly in
1482-458: Is another form of ambient house music. Ambient techno is a music category emerging in the late 1980s that is used to describe ambient music atmospheres with the rhythmic and melodic elements of techno . Notable artists include Aphex Twin , B12 , Autechre , and the Black Dog . Ambient industrial is a hybrid genre of industrial and ambient music. A "typical" ambient industrial work (if there
1560-534: Is awarded annually to the best full-length Canadian album based on artistic merit. Broken Social Scene's self-titled album was nominated in 2006, and Forgiveness Rock Record was nominated in 2010. Ambient music The genre originated in the 1960s and 1970s, when new musical instruments were being introduced to a wider market, such as the synthesizer. It was presaged by Erik Satie 's furniture music and styles such as musique concrète , minimal music , Jamaican dub reggae and German electronic music , but
1638-548: Is commonly used in planetariums , as a relaxation aid and for meditation . Examples of films with soundtracks that feature some, or extensive, usage of ambient music include, Forbidden Planet (1956), THX 1138 (1971), Solaris (1972), Blade Runner (1982), The Thing (1982), Dune (1984), Heathers (1988), Akira (1988), Ghost in the Shell (1995), Titanic (1997), Traffic (2000), Donnie Darko (2001), Solaris (2002), The Passion of
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#17328843153411716-452: Is like a long echo delay, looping through time...turning the rational order of musical sequences into an ocean of sensation." Notable artists within the genre include Dreadzone , Higher Intelligence Agency , the Orb , Gaudi , Ott , Loop Guru , Woob and Transglobal Underground as well as Banco de Gaia and Leyland Kirby Ambient house is a musical category founded in the late 1980s that
1794-403: Is produced by stripping away all sense of doubt and uncertainty (and thus all genuine interest) from the music, Ambient Music retains these qualities. And whereas their intention is to "brighten" the environment by adding stimulus to it (thus supposedly alleviating the tedium of routine tasks and leveling out the natural ups and downs of the body rhythms) Ambient Music is intended to induce calm and
1872-720: Is referenced in the 2013 Lorde song, " Ribs ". "Looks Just Like the Sun" was featured in the 2006 film Swedish Auto . "Stars and Sons" from You Forgot It in People also appeared in the movie The Invisible . Music from the band's albums was used to score the 2006 film Half Nelson . Broken Social Scene released their third full-length album, Broken Social Scene , also produced by Newfeld, in October 2005, with new contributors including k-os , Jason Tait and Murray Lightburn . New band members were Newfeld and Torquil Campbell , who were members of
1950-425: Is such a thing) might consist of evolving dissonant harmonies of metallic drones and resonances, extreme low frequency rumbles and machine noises, perhaps supplemented by gongs , percussive rhythms, bullroarers , distorted voices or anything else the artist might care to sample (often processed to the point where the original sample is no longer recognizable). Entire works may be based on radio telescope recordings,
2028-411: Is used to describe acid house featuring ambient music elements and atmospheres. Tracks in the ambient house genre typically feature four-on-the-floor beats, synth pads , and vocal samples integrated in an atmospheric style. Ambient house tracks generally lack a diatonic center and feature much atonality along with synthesized chords. The Dutch Brainvoyager is an example of this genre. Illbient
2106-497: The Late Show with Stephen Colbert as musical guests and performed "Halfway Home". Emily Haines and James Shaw of Metric, and Amy Millan and Evan Cranley of Stars joined the band for the performance. The album, Hug of Thunder , was released July 7, 2017. On May 15, 2017, the band shared the title track with vocals from Leslie Feist. On May 31, 2017, the band released "Skyline", the album's third preview single. On June 26, 2017,
2184-591: The Olympic Island Festival . The festival was later moved to Harbourfront Centre after a labour dispute resulted in the suspension of ferry service to the Toronto Islands . In May 2009 Arts & Crafts , with association from Anansi Press, released This Book Is Broken written by The Grid editor Stuart Berman, who had a close personal involvement with the band. The book includes artwork, concert posters and photographs (professional and amateur) of
2262-534: The San Francisco Tape Music Centre , Pauline Oliveros coined the term " deep listening " after she recorded an album inside a huge underground cistern in Washington which has a 45-second reverberation time. The concept of Deep Listening then went on to become "an aesthetic based upon principles of improvisation, electronic music, ritual, teaching and meditation". By the early 1990s, artists such as
2340-406: The tripping mind. British artists such as Aphex Twin (specifically: Selected Ambient Works Volume II , 1994), Global Communication ( 76:14 , 1994), The Future Sound of London ( Lifeforms , 1994, ISDN , 1994), the Black Dog ( Temple of Transparent Balls , 1993), Autechre ( Incunabula , 1993, Amber , 1994), Boards of Canada , and The KLF 's Chill Out , (1990), all took
2418-556: The '90s, it's a very nebulous term; many artists enter or leave the style with each successive release. Related styles include ambient industrial (see below) and isolationist ambient. Space music, also spelled "Spacemusic", includes music from the ambient genre as well as a broad range of other genres with certain characteristics in common to create the experience of contemplative spaciousness. Space music ranges from simple to complex sonic textures sometimes lacking conventional melodic, rhythmic, or vocal components, generally evoking
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2496-599: The Birmingham Academy II. They were joined on tour by James Shaw from Metric, who had "flown in that morning" from Toronto. Mitch Bowden , Priddle's bandmate in Don Vail and The Priddle Concern , joined the 2007 tour to replace Priddle. The Juno Awards are presented by the Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences . Broken Social Scene has won two awards from five nominations. The Polaris Music Prize
2574-702: The Kid") and Sing Me the Songs: Celebrating the Works of Kate McGarrigle ("Mother Mother"). In 2013, publisher House of Anansi teamed with several members of Broken Social Scene to sponsor the Broken Social Scene short story contest. Authors were challenged to create works inspired by the individual tracks of Broken Social Scene's breakthrough album, You Forgot It in People . From the over four hundred submissions, thirteen finalists were chosen, one for each track of
2652-521: The Looking Glass in two days. She performed all parts on the album, with diverse instrumentation including percussion, marimba, gong, reed organ, bells, ocarina, vibraphone, piano and glass Coca-Cola bottles. Between 1988 and 1993, Éliane Radigue produced three hour-long works on the ARP 2500 which were subsequently issued together as La Trilogie De La Mort . Also in 1988, founding member and director of
2730-602: The Orb , Aphex Twin , Seefeel , the Irresistible Force , Biosphere , and the Higher Intelligence Agency gained commercial success and were being referred to by the popular music press as ambient house , ambient techno , IDM or simply "ambient". The term chillout emerged from British ecstasy culture which was originally applied in relaxed downtempo "chillout rooms" outside of the main dance floor where ambient, dub and downtempo beats were played to ease
2808-666: The Orb in the 1990s, found its opposite in the style known as dark ambient. Populated by a wide assortment of personalities—ranging from older industrial and metal experimentalists ( Scorn 's Mick Harris , Current 93 's David Tibet , Nurse with Wound 's Steven Stapleton ) to electronic boffins ( Kim Cascone /PGR, Psychick Warriors Ov Gaia ), Japanese noise artists ( K.K. Null , Merzbow ), and latter-day indie rockers ( Main , Bark Psychosis ) – dark ambient features toned-down or entirely missing beats with unsettling passages of keyboards, eerie samples, and treated guitar effects. Like most styles related in some way to electronic/dance music of
2886-607: The Radio . After their concert in November in Rio de Janeiro , the band took a long break from performing until 2013, when they headlined the Field Trip Arts & Crafts Music Festival, celebrating tenth anniversary of their label Arts & Crafts . The band appeared on a number of compilation albums released in 2013, including Arts & Crafts: 2003−2013 ("7/4 (Shoreline)", "Lover's Spit" and "Deathcock"), Arts & Crafts: X ("Day of
2964-502: The album AIA: Alien Observer , listed by Pitchfork at number 21 on their "50 Best Ambient Albums of All Time". In 2011, Julianna Barwick released her first full-length album The Magic Place . Heavily influenced by her childhood experiences in a church choir, Barwick loops her wordless vocals into ethereal soundscapes. It was listed at number 30 on Pitchfork's 50 Best Ambient Albums of All Time. After several self-released albums, Buchla composer, producer and performer Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith
3042-546: The album. Their stories were published in the anthology The Broken Social Scene Story Project: Short Works Inspired by You Forgot It in People . The thirteen finalists were: The band began to play occasional festivals in 2015 and 2016, including a performance at the Electric Arena in September 2016. They released "Halfway Home", the first single from their new album, on March 30, 2017. On March 30, 2017, they appeared on
3120-446: The babbling of newborn babies, or sounds recorded through contact microphones on telegraph wires. Ambient pop is a style that developed in the 1980s and 1990s contemporaneously with post-rock ; it has also been regarded as an extension of the dream pop movement and the atmospheric style of shoegaze . It incorporates structures that are common to indie music , but extensively explores "electronic textures and atmospheres that mirror
3198-834: The band Stars. A limited edition EP, EP to Be You and Me was also printed along with the album. Broken Social Scene performed "7/4 (Shoreline)" on Late Night with Conan O'Brien on January 31, 2006, and that year they performed "Ibi Dreams of Pavement" at the 2006 Juno Awards , at which their self-titled album won the Alternative Album of the Year award. In August the band went on a European tour. Returning in September, they were last-minute replacement performers at North America's first Virgin Festival , at Toronto Islands Park after headliners Massive Attack cancelled due to problems involving obtaining US visas. The band quickly assembled to play
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3276-437: The band among the "most important artists" of the last 25 years. The band was formed in 1999 by core members Kevin Drew and Brendan Canning . This duo recorded and released the band's ambient debut album, Feel Good Lost , on Noise Factory Records in 2001, with contributions by Justin Peroff , Charles Spearin , Bill Priddle , Leslie Feist , Jessica Moss and Stars ' Evan Cranley . Drew and Canning's material at
3354-797: The band appeared as special guests on The Stars and Suns Sessions , the second album from Mexican indie band Chikita Violenta . The album was produced by Dave Newfeld. In May 2008, the band contributed a T-shirt design for the Yellow Bird Project to raise money and awareness for the Lake Ontario Waterkeeper. The shirt was designed by their drummer, Justin Peroff , and bears the slogan "Hope for Truth". Members of Broken Social Scene composed and recorded an original score for director Marc Evans 's film Snow Cake , as well as scored his 2007 film adaptation of Maureen Medved 's novel, The Tracey Fragments . In 2009, Bruce McDonald directed
3432-565: The band released the album's fourth and final preview track "Stay Happy", which features new member Ariel Engle on lead vocals. Broken Social Scene began a tour of Europe and North America in May 2017, which concluded in fall 2017. On January 22, 2019, the band released the single "All I Want" and the details of an EP titled Let's Try the After, Vol. 1 which was released February 15, 2019. They debuted two new songs, "Can’t Find My Heart" and "1972", from
3510-473: The band's free performance at the Harbourfront Centre on July 11, 2009, they were joined by nearly all past contributors, including Feist, Emily Haines and James Shaw, Amy Millan and Evan Cranley, John Crossingham, Jason Collett and Julie Penner. This revue-like show celebrated other projects by members as well as including material from the then-upcoming album. Emcee Bruce McDonald announced the filming of
3588-473: The band. Berman includes extensive interviews with band members and related persons, arranged by subject and chronology. In June 2009, the band played a short set to launch This Book Is Broken at the North by Northeast festival. They played a mix of new songs from their then-upcoming album and old favourites, and were joined by Feist, who also joined them on their second visit to Mexico City in October. During
3666-552: The city of Toronto . These associated acts include Metric , Feist , Stars , Apostle of Hustle , Do Make Say Think , KC Accidental , Emily Haines & The Soft Skeleton , Amy Millan , and Jason Collett . The group's sound combines elements of all of its members' respective musical projects, and is occasionally considered baroque pop . It includes grand orchestrations featuring guitars, horns, woodwinds, and violins, unusual song structures, and an experimental, and sometimes chaotic production style from David Newfeld, who produced
3744-699: The development of minimal music (also called minimalism), which shares many similar concepts to ambient music such as repetitive patterns or pulses, steady drones, and consonant harmony. Many records were released in Europe and the United States of America between the mid-1960s and the mid-1990s that established the conventions of the ambient genre in the anglophone popular music market. Some 1960s records with ambient elements include Music for Yoga Meditation and Other Joys and Music for Zen Meditation by Tony Scott , Soothing Sounds for Baby by Raymond Scott , and
3822-483: The first record of the Environments album series by Irv Teibel . In the late 1960s, French composer Éliane Radigue composed several pieces by processing tape loops from the feedback between two tape recorders and a microphone. In the 1970s, she then went on to compose similar music almost exclusively with an ARP 2500 synthesiser , and her long, slow compositions have often been compared to drone music . In 1969,
3900-531: The group COUM Transmissions were performing sonic experiments in British art schools. Pearls Before Swine 's 1968 album Balaklava features the sounds of birdsong and ocean noise, which were to become tropes of ambient music." Developing in the 1970s, ambient music stemmed from the experimental and synthesizer -oriented styles of the period. Between 1974 and 1976, American composer Laurie Spiegel created her seminal work The Expanding Universe , created on
3978-412: The hypnotic, meditative qualities of ambient music", which is also central to indie electronic music. Ambient pop utilizes the musical experimentation of psychedelia and the repetitive traits of minimalism , krautrock and techno as prevalent influences. Despite being an extension of dream pop, it is distinguished by its adoption of "contemporary electronic idioms, including sampling , although for
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#17328843153414056-482: The listener. iTunes and Spotify have digital radio stations that feature ambient music, which are mostly produced by independent labels . Acclaimed ambient music of this era (according to Pitchfork magazine) include works by Max Richter , Julianna Barwick , Grouper , William Basinski , Oneohtrix Point Never , and the Caretaker . In 2011, American composer Liz Harris recording as Grouper released
4134-417: The main room, during downtime band members would head into Soma's second smaller studio (B-Room) to test out and record new ideas and overdubs. One of their collaborations, "Me & My Hand", ended up being the closing song on Forgiveness Rock Record ; the rest became the beginnings of the later album. In October 2011 the band put on a show featuring Isaac Brock and went on a fall tour in support of TV on
4212-575: The mid-1980s, the possibilities to create a sonic landscape increased through the use of sampling . By the late 1980s, there was a steep increase in the incorporation of the computer in the writing and recording process of records. The sixteen-bit Macintosh platform with built-in sound and comparable IBM models would find themselves in studios and homes of musicians and record makers. However, many artists were still working with analogue synthesizers and acoustic instruments to produce ambient works. In 1983, Midori Takada recorded her first solo LP Through
4290-476: The most part live instruments continue to define the sound." David Bowie 's Berlin Trilogy with ambient music pioneer Brian Eno , both of whom were inspired during the production of the albums in the trilogy by German kosmische Musik bands and minimalist composers, was regarded as influential on ambient pop. The track "Red Sails" from the trilogy's third album, Lodger (1979), was retroactively described as
4368-608: The music played. Cage has been cited by seminal artists such as Brian Eno as influence. In the 1960s, many music groups experimented with unusual methods, with some of them creating what would later be called ambient music. In the summer of 1962, composers Ramon Sender and Morton Subotnick founded The San Francisco Tape Music Center which functioned both as an electronic music studio and concert venue. Other composers working with tape recorders became members and collaborators including Pauline Oliveros , Terry Riley and Steve Reich . Their compositions, among others, contributed to
4446-555: The musicians from the live show joined Drew, Canning, Peroff and Spearin to record the band's second album, You Forgot It in People . The album was produced by David Newfeld and released on Paper Bag Records in October 2002 and won the Alternative Album of the Year Juno Award in 2003. The album also included musical contributions by Priddle, Jessica Moss, Brodie West , Susannah Brady and Ohad Benchetrit , but these were credited as supporting musicians rather than band members. On
4524-444: The new EP during an appearance on CBC Music 's The Strombo Show . The EP's first official single was "All I Want". On March 20, 2019, they announced the sequel EP Let's Try the After, Vol 2 , which was released April 12, 2019, on Arts & Crafts. Its first single was "Can't Find My Heart". From 2002 to 2004 female vocalists Emily Haines , Leslie Feist , and Amy Millan rotated between availability from their own bands, until
4602-501: The penultimate episode of the Canadian series Terminal City (2005). The version of "Lover's Spit" found on 2004's Bee Hives record was also featured in an episode of the third season of the FX series Nip/Tuck . Showtime 's television program The L Word featured "Pacific Theme" and "Looks Just Like the Sun", both from You Forgot It in People , in the show's first season. "Lover's Spit"
4680-407: The prominence of house and techno music , growing a cult following by the 1990s. Ambient music may have elements of new-age music and drone music , as some works may use sustained or repeated notes. Ambient music did not achieve large commercial success, being criticized as everything from "dolled-up new age, [..] to boring and irrelevant technical noodling". Nevertheless, it has attained
4758-414: The record label, these concerts were part live presentation, part grant application and part educational demonstration. However, it was not until Brian Eno coined the term in the mid-70s that ambient music was defined as a genre. Eno went on to record 1975's Discreet Music with this in mind, suggesting that it be listened to at "comparatively low levels, even to the extent that it frequently falls below
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#17328843153414836-521: The same phrase in his music project Divination, where he collaborated with other artists in the genre. Ambient dub adopts dub styles made famous by King Tubby and other Jamaican sound artists from the 1960s to the early 1970s, using DJ-inspired ambient electronica, complete with all the inherent drop-outs, echo, equalization and psychedelic electronic effects. It often features layering techniques and incorporates elements of world music, deep bass lines and harmonic sounds. According to David Toop , "Dub music
4914-445: The second and third albums. Stuart Berman's This Book Is Broken (2009) covers the band from its inception to its critical acclaim. In 2010, Bruce McDonald made This Movie Is Broken , a movie about the band's Harbourfront show during the 2009 Toronto strike . The collective and their respective projects have had a broad influence on alternative music and indie rock during the early 21st century, in 2021 Pitchfork listed
4992-533: The sort of music that could be played during a dinner to create a background atmosphere for that activity, rather than serving as the focus of attention. In his own words, Satie sought to create "a music...which will be part of the noises of the environment, will take them into consideration. I think of it as melodious, softening the noises of the knives and forks at dinner, not dominating them, not imposing itself. It would fill up those heavy silences that sometime fall between friends dining together. It would spare them
5070-448: The sounds would be modified with reverbs and delay units to make spacey versions of the sounds as part of the ambience. Such natural sounds oftentimes include those of a beach , rainforest , thunderstorm and rainfall , among others, with vocalizations of animals such as bird songs being used as well. Pieces containing binaural beats are common and popular uploads as well, which provide music therapy and stress management for
5148-593: The supporting tour, the core band consisted of Drew, Canning, Peroff, Whiteman and Jason Collett, along whichever band members were available on each show date. In 2003, the B-sides and remix collection Bee Hives was released. Broken Social Scene's song " Lover's Spit " from 2002's You Forgot It in People has been featured in director Clément Virgo 's movie Lie with Me (2005), Paul McGuigan's Wicker Park (2004), Bruce McDonald 's The Love Crimes of Gillian Guess (2004), Showtime 's Queer as Folk (2003) and
5226-414: The term to describe music that is different from forms of canned music like Muzak . In the liner notes for his 1978 album Ambient 1: Music for Airports , Eno wrote: Whereas the extant canned music companies proceed from the basis of regularizing environments by blanketing their acoustic and atmospheric idiosyncrasies, Ambient Music is intended to enhance these. Whereas conventional background music
5304-564: The threshold of audibility", referring to Satie's quote about his musique d'ameublement. Other contemporaneous musicians creating ambient-style music at the time included Jamaican dub musicians such as King Tubby , Japanese electronic music composers such as Isao Tomita and Ryuichi Sakamoto as well as the psychoacoustic soundscapes of Irv Teibel 's Environments series, and German experimental bands such as Popol Vuh , Cluster , Kraftwerk , Harmonia , Ash Ra Tempel and Tangerine Dream . Mike Orme of Stylus Magazine describes
5382-458: The time was almost entirely instrumental, so they brought together musicians from the Toronto indie scene, the album contributors as well as Andrew Whiteman , Jason Collett , and Metric 's Emily Haines , to flesh out their live show with lyrics and vocals. Over time, the band came to include contributions from James Shaw , Justin Peroff , John Crossingham , and Stars member Amy Millan . All of
5460-553: The track from Forgiveness Rock Record . Every Monday a new remix was released and available for 24 hours via a different online partner. The first version, "All to All (Sebastien Sexy Legs Grainger Remix)", by Sebastien Grainger, was released August 9 via Pitchfork. During the recording of Forgiveness Rock Record , the group also worked on tracks for Lo-Fi for the Dividing Nights while in Chicago . While John McEntire worked in
5538-454: The trouble of paying attention to their own banal remarks. And at the same time it would neutralize the street noises which so indiscreetly enter into the play of conversation. To make such music would be to respond to a need." In 1948, French composer & engineer, Pierre Schaeffer coined the term musique concrète . This experimental style of music used recordings of natural sounds that were then modified, manipulated or effected to create
5616-441: The work of Berlin school musicians as "laying the groundwork" for ambient. The impact the rise of the synthesizer in modern music had on ambient as a genre cannot be overstated; as Ralf Hutter of early electronic pioneers Kraftwerk said in a 1977 Billboard interview: "Electronics is beyond nations and colors...with electronics everything is possible. The only limit is with the composer". The Yellow Magic Orchestra developed
5694-415: Was prominently named and popularized by British musician Brian Eno in 1978 with his album Ambient 1: Music for Airports ; Eno opined that ambient music "must be as ignorable as it is interesting", however, in early years, there were artists that were pioneers in this genre, like Jean-Michel Jarre , Vangelis , Mike Oldfield , Wendy Carlos , Kraftwerk , etc. It saw a revival towards the late 1980s with
5772-489: Was recorded at Soma in Chicago, with John McEntire producing, and in Toronto at the studio of Sebastian Grainger and James Shaw. For the first time, Amy Millan, Emily Haines, and Leslie Feist recorded a track together (albeit at different times). This album was short-listed for the 2010 Polaris Music Prize . In August 2010, Broken Social Scene initiated their "All to All" remix series, which included seven different versions of
5850-528: Was recorded throughout 2004 and 2006 in Ohad Benchetrit's house while the band was not on tour. Although billed as a solo project, most Broken Social Scene members make cameo appearances. The sound itself is Broken Social Scene's familiar mix of rough and ragged, sad and celebratory, with psychedelic swells and acoustic jangles. Also featured are Dinosaur Jr. 's J Mascis and Canadian rock icon Tom Cochrane playing and singing and handclapping along. The album
5928-651: Was released on September 18, 2007, and a tour billed as Broken Social Scene Performs Kevin Drew's Spirit If... took place in late 2007. The second "Broken Social Scene presents..." record, by Brendan Canning , is entitled Something for All of Us and was released on Arts & Crafts in July 2008. Broken Social Scene also took part in the 2008 Siren Music Festival in Coney Island , Brooklyn . On April 29, 2009, Kevin Drew and Brendan Canning guest-hosted 102.1 The Edge 's program The Indie Hour to promote their concert at
6006-472: Was signed to independent record label Western Vinyl in 2015. In 2016, she released her second official album EARS . It paired the Buchla synthesizer with traditional instruments and her compositions were compared to Laurie Spiegel and Alice Coltrane . Kaitlyn has also collaborated with other well-known Buchla performer, Suzanne Ciani . Iggy Pop 's 2019 album Free features ambient soundscapes. Mallsoft ,
6084-445: Was there that Brian Eno heard Laraaji playing and asked him if he'd like to record an album. Day of Radiance released in 1980, was the third album in Eno's Ambient series. Although Laraaji had already recorded a number of albums, this one gave him international recognition. Unlike other albums in the series, Day of Radiance featured mostly acoustic instruments instead of electronics. In
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